The biggest challenges we're comparing our behind the scenes to someone else's highlight reel.

And you're going to keep doing that until you start focusing on your behind the scenes and you

start building who you are.

Hello everyone, welcome back to On Purpose, the number one health podcast in the world for life,

self work and love. Thank you so much for tuning in again for another solo episode where I get

to deep dive into a theme inside our lives that's causing us challenges and try and help give you

some experiences, insights and stories and science that will help you overcome it.

Now today's situation, today's challenge is something that we all face.

How do we stop comparing ourselves to others? I'm sure this is something you deal with,

it's something I deal with, it's something everyone I know deals with. This is something that no one

can avoid. We live in a world where it's so easy to measure our worth against others, whether it's

social media, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or maybe it's in the workplace, we can spend a lot of

time wondering if we're good enough, if we're smart enough or if we're attractive enough.

Think about this for a moment, how many times have you thought to yourself?

One, my videos and posts don't get as many likes as everyone else in this space. Number two,

his or her body is better than mine. Number three, wow, their relationship looks amazing,

it looks like they're always traveling, having incredible dates. Number four, oh my god,

they just got promoted. What about me? I've been working harder than them, I've been doing more

than them. Now this is just a few ideas, a few examples of some of the things we compare ourselves by,

and I'm sure as I was listing those, you were probably nodding along, raising your hand or saying,

Jay, that's me. Well, first of all, I want you to recognize this, this is something all of us do. You're

not alone, you're not the only one, don't beat yourself up about it, don't start judging yourself

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